Quotes About Serenity

A quiet heart is content with what God gives. It is enough. All is grace. Elisabeth Elliot

Jesus comes into our lives in these places of need. And if we recognize Him because of our need, then we can receive whatever it is that He is prepared to offer us whether it's the grace of forgiveness or the patience to wait for the answer to that prayer or healing or serenity in the midst of the worst times of your life. Whatever it is, you can receive it and say, "Thank You, Lord.

en la muerte no hay dolor, miedo, ansiedad ni pena. Sólo se siente el agrado y la serenidad de una transformación en mariposa.

Dios mío, dame la serenidad para aceptar las cosas que no puedo cambiar, el valor para cambiar las que puedo cambiar, y la sabiduría para discernir entre ambas.

Dios mío, dame la serenidad para aceptar las cosas que no puedo cambiar, el valor para cambiar las que puedo cambiar, y la sabiduría para discernir entre

If a summer were a girl, she'd always be lying stretched out in the grass in a long white dress, her arms over her head, her eyes half closed.

She goes back to bed, turns out the light, and can hear herself start to snore before she falls off into sleep. She doesn't know why so many people hate snoring. She finds it soothing. White noise, with a ruffle.

Life has its way, and it seems to me now that the object might only be to learn how to be graceful, to understand the value of a deep kind of acceptance.

Patience is not only a virtue; it is a form of grace

It's like you let your mind stay in its pajamas

Sometimes we make choices in our lives. Sometimes our lives make choices for us. I wish for you some harmony in spirit.

woman is most beautiful when she is herself. The Japanese call it a beauty with 'inner implications.' It's not a show-off kind of thing, some peacock display of clothes and makeup and demeanor. It's quiet. Subtle. And here's the most interesting thing: Shibui relies on the ones looking at a person or an object to make something for themselves out

Or he could go back to the ease of solitude. It's really not so bad, being alone, never worrying about what has to be done for, or with, or in the interest of another. it's like you let your mind stay in its pajamas all day.

I turn off the radio, listen to the quiet. Which has its own, rich sound. Which I knew, but had forgotten. And it is good to remember.

Karen, her elbows folded on the deck-rail, wanted to share with someone the pleasure in being alone: this is the paradox of any happy solitude. She had never landed at Cork, so this hill and that hill beyond were as unexpected as pictures at which you say Oh look! Nobody was beside her to share the moment, which would have been imperfect with anyone else there.

Karen, her elbows folded on the deck-rail, wanted to share with someone her pleasure in being alone: this is the paradox of any happy solitude.

The happy passive nature, locked up with itself like a mirror in an airy room, reflects what goes on but demands not to be approached.

I dropped my head into my arms. I could hear the sea vibrating, the tiny hiss of displaced sand and the click of stones. If I lay still and quiet enough, I thought, I could melt into this elemental world of sun, water and wide, open horizon.

The way to worry about nothing is to pray about everything.

Tis so beautiful—flowers every day of the year. You can always smell them in the air, even out to sea.

At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.

We don't realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace.

Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.

Learning how to discipline your speech is a way of preventing your energies from spilling out of you through the rupture of your mouth, exhausting you and filling the world with words, words, words instead of serenity, peace and bliss.